William Muschenheim architectural drawings and papers, 1929-1957

Organized by job numbers: 1-130, with gaps between jobs 11-17, 25-26, 28-29. Each job number may represent more than one project, and each client received a single job number no matter how many projects Muscheneheim may have done for them.

Arrangement: by job number (1-130) and project name(s). The jobs are listed numerically according to Muschenheim's original filing system.

William Muschenheim, (1902-1990), was a modernist architect in New York in the 1930s. Muschenheim attended Williams College, 1919-21; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1921-1924; Behrens Master School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, 1925-29. He received the Behrens Prize in 1926, and taught at the University of Michigan from 1950-1973. His work includes major alterations to the Hotel Astor, NY; Marine Transportation Building, 1939 New York World's Fair; S.R. Guggenheim Museum for Non-Objective Art, 1939; and numerous alterations to penthouses, apartment houses and private residences. Muschenheim also worked for Peabody, Wilson & Brown, and Joseph Urban.

Restrictions

This collection is available for use by qualified readers by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please call (212) 854-4110 or email avery-drawings@libraries.columbia.edu.

The architectural drawings from this collection have been cataloged separately, by building project, in CLIO. The finding aid for this collection contains the related call numbers and other related information. Jobs for which there are no drawings, (i.e. no CLIO records), have been traced in the 600 fields of this record. They are: job 1 (Frederick A. Muschenheim), job 45 (Lawrence A. Kocher), job 46 (NYCOS), job 76 (Rudolf Serkin), job 97 (Edgar V. Bythiner), job 116 (W.A. Cooper), and job 117 (Joseph Aronson). It is also worth noting that there are CLIO records for which there are no job numbers. They are: NYDA94-F26 through NYDA94-F29. The total number of related CLIO records for this collection is 149.